Methods for Teaching and Instructing in a Virtual World Including Multiple Views

1. A method for providing visual instruction to a user of a system, the system including a user imaging system and output adapted to couple to a display device to provide an output display to the user, including to guide user body motion, comprising the steps of: receiving first user positional information from the user imaging system, generating a first mirror image of the user positional information utilizing the first user positional information from the user imaging system, generating a first instructional image having the same positional orientation as the first mirror image of the user positional information, and generating a composite output display including the first mirror image of the user positional information and the first instructional image, wherein the first mirror image and first instructional image are non-overlapping and wherein the first mirror image is the sole image of the user in the output display.

2. The method for providing visual instruction to a user of claim 1 further including a second instructional image in a mirror image orientation to the first instruction image.

3. The method for providing visual instruction to a user of claim 2 wherein the second instruction image depicts a different view of the first instruction image.

4. The method for providing visual instruction to a user of claim 3 wherein the different view comprises a back side view of the first Instructional image.

5. The method for providing visual instruction to a user of claim 1 wherein the first mirror image of the user positional information comprises an animated character.

6. The method for providing visual instruction to a user of claim 1 wherein the first mirror image of the user positional information comprises an avatar.

7. The method for providing visual instruction to a user of claim 1 wherein the first instructional image comprises an animated character.

8. The method for providing visual instruction to a user of claim 1 wherein the first instructional image comprises an avatar.

9. The method for providing visual instruction to a user of claim 1 wherein the first instructional image is provided in real time.

10. The method for providing visual instruction to a user of claim 1 wherein the user body motion includes limb motion.

11. The method for providing visual instruction to a user of claim 1 wherein the user body motion includes whole body motion.

12. The method for providing visual instruction to a user of claim 1 wherein the instruction comprises exercise instruction.

13. The method for providing visual instruction to a user of claim 1 wherein the instruction comprises rehabilitation instruction.

14. The method for providing visual instruction to a user of claim 1 wherein the imaging system includes a camera.

15. The method for providing visual instruction to a user of claim 14 wherein the camera is a color camera.

16. The method for providing visual instruction to a user of claim 14 wherein the camera is a depth camera.

17. The method for providing visual instruction to a user of claim 1 wherein the output display further includes textual annotation.

18. The method for providing visual instruction to a user of claim 17 wherein the textual annotation relates to the position of the instructional image.

19. The method for providing visual instruction to a user of claim 1 wherein an image is subject to dynamic state change.

20. The method for providing visual instruction to a user of claim 19 wherein the dynamic state change includes obscuring another image.